Word Origin & History

conversion mid-14c., originally of religion, from Fr. conversion, from L. conversionem, from convertere (see convert). Of buildings, from 1921. Conversion disorder "hysteria" (attested from 1946 but said to have been coined by Freud) was in DSM-IV (1994).

Example Sentences for conversion

The manner of Lydia's conversion ought not to be overlooked.

To what dangers might she not be subjected, by the intolerant zeal of conversion!

Her conversion was an event that broke the lethargy of their stagnant life.

The purport of such works is the conversion of pig-lead into white-lead.

Just before his conversion, his college course, early begun, had been completed.

If you would care to hear it, I will relate to you the story of my conversion.

At conversion you did not yet know your need of Him, and still less what you might expect of Him.

In this letter we are at a hundred years after the conversion of Clovis.

The conversion of Clovis was the first light which arose in this darkness.